sent these to mick but thought I share here as well.
Over the last year I've had to put down two of my dogs. Harriet was our old rescue bulldog, a real nasty piece of work who have been euthanized had somebody not suckered my wife into taking her. Folks tell you their $10,000 dog. Well she really was one of those. Did everything possible to allow her a happy and pain free 8 years of life. Had to euthanize her about a year ago due to failing health.
Then on Nov 1st we had to put Mojo down. Moj as he was known was our 15 year old spaniel mix, also from the shelter who had a stroke in July of 2013 and was never right after that. Was my wife running partner until then. Doggie Alzheimers did him in and my wife have been wanting a new running partner since because all we had left was Oxford, our other bulldog rescue. Oxfords idea of running is walking to the end of the driveway and resting.
So my wife has been looking for a German Shorthaired Pointer. We had found a breeder up in the FL panhandle who agreed to sell us one. Of course it was a "show quality", for a show quality price but the conditions were 4 shows a year, she would train the dog (at our expense) and keep the dog, show the dog (for which we paid her), and when the dog came into heat she would determine who the stud was, and if it was one of her stud she got the stud fee. This didn't seem like a very good deal to me so we inquired about a "pet quality" dog to which were told that the dog would come spayed/neutered. When it was noted that my wife had an interest in breeding pet quality we were informed that was not an option. See we buy the dog but really don't have any say in what happens to it. Sort of an odd thing. Of course this surprise my wife but not me. We nuked this idea and of course the breeder told us "GOOD LUCK FINDING A DOG THEN BECAUSE YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO FIND ONE!". See the dogs are in demand because of dipshits like her!
So back to the internet and within 20 minutes we came across another puppy, the one we ended up with. Unfortunately he could not be sold as a show dog because he had what was believed to be a umbilical hernia (congenital defect) but actually was not but rather a muscular hernia, likely not genetic, however could not be known until I fixed it and i neutered him at the same time. Anyhow dog has 10 grand champions in his blood line and is beautiful. We picked him up 2 weeks ago when he was 7 weeks old, I fixed the hernia and neutered him the next day and he starts training next week (10 weeks of age). Will do field training, agility training and herd training.
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Originally Posted by BigBluePappy
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